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Virtue Quotes
"Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking, for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else."
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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
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"This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others."
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"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
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"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
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"Nobility is not only in forgiveness."
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"Wisdom lies at the edge of intelligence. Joy lies at the edge of happiness. Faith lies at the edge of boldness. Love lies at the edge of kindness. God lies at the edge of righteousness."
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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
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"Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!"
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"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."
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"Virtue is reason which has become energy."
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"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."
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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."
"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be."
"We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness."
"Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean."
"There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!"
"The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the world wherever she goes, and that they will always look after her. The brothers inhabit the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and poetry. The brothers can be called upon in any critical situation for rescue and assistance. When you die, your four spirit brothers collet your soul and bring you to heaven."
"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."
"The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
"What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness."
"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."
"Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another."
"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness."
"Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty."
"These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life."
"One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions."
"Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue."
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